“Against the day of sorrowLay by some trifling thingA smile, a kiss, a flower,For sweet remembering”

“We’ve shared countless kisses. They were almost always heated and demanding, but this one is entirely different. It tells me things he can’t or won’t say because it goes against everything he intends for our relationship.”

“I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.”

“Some day you’ll call me the one that got away.” -Jessie from Going Under.”

“I hate flowers.”

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.”